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This afternoon I made a post called “Council and China” where I wrote about Mayor Shari Green’s proposal to spend $35,000 on a four-person trip to China. From it: So it will be interesting to see how Green justifies the cost of a foreign relations trip while the core services review has the city actively […]

Posted on 15 October 2012 and filed under articles, comments, Prince George

Cleaning up my mental space, one task at a time.

Posted on 12 October 2012 and filed under articles, Best Of, misc, personal

How to make people listen to a two-and-half hour show in 30 seconds.

Posted on 11 October 2012 and filed under articles, CBC, comments

Forget grammar, maybe we should learn how to speak the language first.

Posted on 9 October 2012 and filed under articles, Best Of, Canada, comments, misc

Not me specifically. Just everyone involved in an organization I was part of. It was made online, via social media, with someone essentially saying he knew where we lived and he would kill us and burn our cars and other unsavory things. This post is not a slam to police because once we contacted them […]

Posted on 21 August 2012 and filed under articles, comments, personal

When your biggest threat is actually an asset.

Posted on 10 August 2012 and filed under articles, Best Of, ideas, journalism, media

Click. Click. Refresh. Breaking the habit.

Posted on 7 August 2012 and filed under articles, Best Of, comments, personal

Sitting while you work is killing you. No, really. It’s the subject of much discussion this week. I’m not going to go into a detailed analysis of all the studies that have been done on this subject (a pretty good set of articles is linked to in the preamble to this Wirecutter article). But I […]

Posted on 25 July 2012 and filed under articles, Best Of, misc

It does us as a nation no good to look at the problems and failures of the rest of the world and take that as proof that we got it right and can sit back and celebrate.

Posted on 1 July 2012 and filed under articles, Canada

I saw this downtown last week and was reminded of this Ted X Talk by Dave Meslin. He proposed that “apathy as we think we know it doesn’t actually exist, but rather that people do care but we live in a world that actively discourages engagement.” He used city notices like these as an example. […]

Posted on 25 June 2012 and filed under articles, Best Of, cities, politics, Prince George

When do localized emergencies penetrate the national consciousness? Or even the people living right next to them?

Posted on 22 June 2012 and filed under articles, journalism, media, Prince George

I’ll admit to not being well-schooled in Aboriginal histories, but I’m equally unschooled in other histories. I’m more interested in the broad strokes, the narratives that shape the way people think about their country and themselves. And I don’t think that, as a whole, Canadians think of themselves as being shaped by Aboriginal people, historically or today.

Posted on 21 June 2012 and filed under articles, Canada

Your five square blocks of core reality.

Posted on 20 June 2012 and filed under articles, Best Of, cities

Last year’s summer was cloudy and wet. Every month either set or came close to setting records for dark and rainfall. Unfortunately, this summer is starting to look like it might go the same way. Last year, I spent a bunch of time waiting for the weather to get better. This year, I’m just starting […]

Posted on 18 June 2012 and filed under articles, misc, personal

Explore your own backyard. Master new things. Be self-reliant.

Posted on 17 June 2012 and filed under articles, personal